The collaboration thus far has been an insightful journey. So far I've learned a lot not only about working with somebody I've only just met, but also about what it means to work on a collaboration while you have several other collaborations going on at the same time. I was involved with three other collaborations with people I had only just met.
Working with people you're not too familiar with puts you in the deep-end a bit. This is because in the past I've always been grouped with people I knew quite well and what their strengths and weaknesses were. In this case it was simply meet somebody with a common interest, and dive into the project after splitting up responsibilities.
It taught me a lot about not worrying about what others were doing and simply doing my part of the project as well as I could. This made focus more on my responsibilities.
Looking at the way we've been collaborating it's been pretty smooth. I think the reason for this is that we're both personally engaged with the project; we're both interested in the cause, the topics, the intentions and the overall project. This is what we've identified as an "Interest-based" group model as talked about in week 2 of semester. If could relate this to the way my final studio project is going where we had to pick an issue we were passionate about and then develop a project from there it helps to make the project more engaging. I feel the same thing has occurred with this project which is why it has run quite smoothly.
Another thing that I've noticed is that if we can't find a collaborator out there who has the skill-set we need, we have been able to make-do with what we've got until we find somebody to fill that space. I have no explanation for this for, however I think it might be due to necessity. The old saying "Necessity is the mother of invention", seem to ring true with this project as we've been able to find a piece of software that helped with the web design.
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